July 17th, 2007Tell us what you think
Please leave a comment on this post and let us know what you think about The Nigerian Super Blog
We are actively seeking and implementing ideas, tips andfeedback from visitors to The Nigerian Super Blog (NSB)
Please tell us what you think about NSB.
What we want:
- Criticism (harsh and mild)
- Tips and ideas
- Praise
- Anything else
July 17th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
well… i’ve really been enjoying being part of the Nigerian Super Blog project, and i’ve discovered so many blogs i never knew about… i think you guys are doing a great job! (i’m actually surprised that some bloggers would get so offended at being included!)
one thing, though: you guys don’t feature my posts enough! some of my best material never shows up here! am i doing something wrong? does it have to do with the time of day i usually update my blog? (or do i just need to Digg or something?)
July 18th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Uchenna: Thanks a lot for the kind supportive words. The issue of offense stems from several factors mostly centering about the manner in which we are republishing the content. We are however aware of the several shortcomings of the website and as we get more and more feedback, we begin to get a better idea of what we should (or should not) be doing and how to go about doing (or not doing) these.
Regarding your posts not showing up enough, be assured that ALL your posts show up at some time or other on the frontpage of the website. However, because there are so many blogs getting updated all the time, new posts quickly disappear from the front page, only to be replaced by the more recent ones from each update.
This problem, though, is the focus of our next major upgrade (which, hopefully, shall be done over the weekend). With this upgrade, we hope to implement certain features that would increase the exposure of posts that are no longer appearing on the Frontpage. While this may not be a permanent solution, we hope it would suffice while we try to think of other ways that we can increase the exposure of archived posts.
The Digg button for the posts is something we tried out but had to remove temporarily because of some bugs which we are trying to fix, so please ignore the message about Digging posts (maybe we should even delete that message in the meantime)
Lastly, your blog is so COOOLLL man. All that info and entertainment gist. Uchenna you are really really doing a good job.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Hey guys
I chose to be anonymous so it won’t be like i’m trying to boost visits to my blog which is actually on here. I love the project and what u guys are trying to do so please keep up the good work.
I noticed a bug which I want to bring to your attention. The recent posts are arranged according to when they were posted using military time (hh:mm) but it seems like you do not take into consideration the time difference between posts on different blogs from different parts of the world. For instance, I posted on my blog about a hour ago which is 12:32pm Eastern Standard time aka GMT -5. Someone in naija posted around 3pm = 15:00 in GMT +1. So my post was after theirs but it still showed up underneath their own. My time was pegged at 12:32 and theirs at 15:00. So anyone in a time zone ahead of the US, say in naija for instance will always have their posts above american posters unless our posts are at least 5 hrs after theirs.
Please do what you can to fix the bug. Keep up the good work and keep repping that green white and green.
Anonymous naija